Apologies in advance for the potentially vague description, but I also cannot find a solution elsewhere on the forum.
Earlier today, I was watching a YouTube video and then I locked my phone and left it to charge whilst I went downstairs (as I often do). When I returned roughly an hour later, I found the screen on, which I only ever do if I've left Draw Something open, or some similar app - but it was on the lock screen.
(none of that is necessarily important, I just wanted to clear up the "what did you do to make it start rebooting" question)
Anyway, after unlocking the phone, the screen went to black and the phone restarted.
However, it wasn't a "real" reboot, because the boot screen didn't come up, etc. It's just like just the UI is restarted. I can usually use the phone for about 30 seconds at a time. This seems extended when I have flight mode on, and is even longer still when I have the phone locked.
I've uninstalled some potentially-offending apps, removed the SD card, cleared some apps' data, but to no avail.
I'm using default 4.0.4 from Samsung. The only issues I'd had with it until now were that some apps crashed occasionally, but I attributed that mainly to the apps themselves.
The most annoying thing for me is that is seems like it's an issue that can be fixed quite simply, without having to uninstall every app or factory reset the phone.
Anyone have any other ideas as to what I could do? Thanks!
RobHannay said:
Apologies in advance for the potentially vague description, but I also cannot find a solution elsewhere on the forum.
Earlier today, I was watching a YouTube video and then I locked my phone and left it to charge whilst I went downstairs (as I often do). When I returned roughly an hour later, I found the screen on, which I only ever do if I've left Draw Something open, or some similar app - but it was on the lock screen.
(none of that is necessarily important, I just wanted to clear up the "what did you do to make it start rebooting" question)
Anyway, after unlocking the phone, the screen went to black and the phone restarted.
However, it wasn't a "real" reboot, because the boot screen didn't come up, etc. It's just like just the UI is restarted. I can usually use the phone for about 30 seconds at a time. This seems extended when I have flight mode on, and is even longer still when I have the phone locked.
I've uninstalled some potentially-offending apps, removed the SD card, cleared some apps' data, but to no avail.
I'm using default 4.0.4 from Samsung. The only issues I'd had with it until now were that some apps crashed occasionally, but I attributed that mainly to the apps themselves.
The most annoying thing for me is that is seems like it's an issue that can be fixed quite simply, without having to uninstall every app or factory reset the phone.
Anyone have any other ideas as to what I could do? Thanks!
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just go to recovery mode and fix permissions
So, this is my problem.
I turned on TalkBack on my Samsung Galaxy S3 then locked the screen and now I can't unlock my phone to turn it back off. It just continues to read everything from locked screen. My SIM card is locked and it tells me there is no service. I pulled out battery several times but it boots and won't let me go any further than locked screen and TalkBack starts reading everything out loud again. Please help me fix it
Update: I successfully unlocked SIM card but it won't let me go any further than locked screen again.
P.S. Excuse me if I misspell anything, english is not my mother language.
Second Update: I've noticed "Safe Mode" sign in lower left corner. Does it mean anything?
Third Update: I figuered out I need to slide two fingers at the same time to unlock it and move around so I managed to ge to settings and turn off talkback
happened to me as well
I noticed the "Safe Mode" as well.
Happened to me in the airport after I let some old lady call someone in a language I couldn't understand, so I had couple of theories, including the NSA controlling my phone...
Every time I restarted, I had seconds to use the touch screen! that's it.
phone being protected by a pin, meant I couldn't really do anything, but keep restarting.
There was a logo on the top left tray (running apps) that I didn't recognize, which disappeared after a second.
It took at least an hour for it to go back, many restarts, battery out & in, and any trick/buttons combinations that I know in the GS3.
Not sure what really solved it in the end...if it happen again, I am going back to square one.
I really needed to use the internet, but at least, this passed the time until the delayed flight finally came...
happened again. Airport again
Anyone has any idea?
I got my Xiaomi Redmi 3 in the middle of october 2016. Since then i've been using it every day. It had minor problems, like music app sometimes turns off by itself, data connection didn't want to turn on only with phone restart, but nothing major, that couldn't be temporarily fixed. But a few days ago i just wanted to browse instagram, i opened the app, and it just turned off instantly. So i tried reinstalling it. Nothing changed. I then tried to install an older version of the app. Still no change. So i decided to leave it be. I was talking to my father, that it should be reflashed because there is something wrong with it. He just pressed regular restart on it, but after that the phone died. I mean it died. It does not respond to charging, connecting to usb, pressing any existing combination of the three buttons. The screen and the status LED does not light up even for a bit. I tried to reflash it anyway with methods specifically for this situation, but it doesn't work either. In the flash tool installation of the rom just does not start. I think it's because my pc does not accept the driver, even from the official website, it just says in the device manager, that it's Android and it has that little yellow triangle. So it is visible for my PC through USB but no driver is accepted. What should i do?
Replace to new phone or carry your phone to customer service, but hey it's xiaomi
This wont help with your phone, but just wanted to leave a note for others. I was having the same issue with the Instagram app. I reinstalled the app, wiped caches, upgraded my ROM, downgraded the app, every tried a entriely differnet ROM. Nothign worked. Instagram would just crash a few seconds after opening. Really weird.
Heres how i fixed it: go to Airplane mode, open the app, logout, turn off airplane mode, log back in.
rarely fc it's okay. but when got often it's a major issue. might be emmc needs to be fixed
Hi,
I replaced my cracked screen around 6 months ago. The new screen is an FTS-TS type. Everything was smooth and fine until about 6 weeks ago when the phone started randomly freezing. During a freeze, If I press the power button off and on again (not rebooting) it's OK until the next freeze. It does this very many times a day, some days are worse than others. One consistent thing - it will ALWAYS freeze on the lock screen following a reboot, even following a factory reset or using safe-mode.
Recently I noticed that a page of Vietnamese language settings appears when coming from an idle lock screen state to the home screen. It now does this a few times a day. Since my phone is set to English, this is very odd. Even if it was in English, it's very odd a random page of settings opening itself in such a way. I have hardly any of my own apps installed since I've done several resets so there is no app that I could blame for this odd behaviour.
In desperation I wanted to try a custom rom. However, I could not even install another ROM via TWRP since when I got to the TWRP lock screen (after unlocking the bootloader and installing the TWRP image) I could not swipe to unlock it, and power on and off was having no effect! This means I am stuck with the stock rom (MIUI Global 11.0.8 stable) and can't try anything else.
I did try another bootloader and that also froze
At this stage I am assuming the fault is a software issue rather than an hardware issue.
Xiaomi UK have washed their hands of this issue, I don't expect any help from them anyway as it's out of warranty now. They keep repeating themselves by suggesting factory resets, even though I'm blue in the face telling them that that is not resolving the issue.
Any help with this frustrating issue would be very welcome !
Wazzup.
Over at the Pixel 6 Pro fair, we have quite the number of people having problems with random reboots. We are trying to narrow it in - Android12? Pixel 6? Software? Hardware?
So - anyone here with the same set of problems? Or does the Pixel 6 not have that kind of issue?
For reference: https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/random-reboots.4353231/
I have gotten several random reboots as well. 256gb seafoam pixel 6. In particular, I was using "Frep" automation app (unrooted, used pc to start server) to do repetitive image searches in a game. Also the phone was sitting on a wireless charger while doing this. I noticed my phone felt pretty warm, wonder if it could be overheating?
Could be a naughty 3rd party app. Have you tried safe mode?
I posted this here:
P6 Bluetooth Problems
My p6 will see most some of my Bluetooth devices (laptop, tablet, TV, earbuds) . It pairs with the earbuds, but everything else it will try and pair, usually does not. If and when hen it does pair, that pairing is dropped dropped within 5 secs...
forum.xda-developers.com
My random reboots (or crashes that forced me to reboot) almost entirely stem from the wifi+bluetooth implementation. I found a sure-fire way to crash it during setup. Without word vomiting here, connecting the P6 with and to other devices has proved more difficult than any previous Pixel (for me).
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Could be a naughty 3rd party app. Have you tried safe mode?
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Not yet. It's also hard to "force" it (the reboots, I am not able to replicate it manually). Yesterday it just randomly happened whilst the phone laid idle next to me, thrice at the morning, about one time through late afternoon, then one time evening. I just notice the screen lighting up, then the Google logo comes, meaning the phone restarted.
I'm also pretty sure that Bluetooth/Wifi settings differed when the reboots happened, ergo at some times bluetooth was on, then when it rebooted, bluetooth was off. At no time when the reboots happened had I a bluetooth device connected. WiFi was online though, all the time.
What all the reboots have in commong though (at least the ones where I am concerned), is that the phone is just laying next to me, or somewhere, being in idle - doing as far as I know, nothing. It never happened when I used the phone or put it under load, so my P6 never "crapped" out under me. That's why I am not that concerned about this as of now, but it's certainly a nuisance to unlock the phone every time with my darn pin.
(Concerning 3rd party app) - I'd say that's unlikely. I copied my files over from my Pixel 4 XL and have not yet added one singular other app to my P6 Pro, so it should have gone naughty before my transfer over.
Hi! I experienced a big crash on the pixel 6. When I was configuring telegram, the app crashed and then the screen got black. After a minute it rebooted to the Google logo with a loading bar underneath. It was blocked in that state, but I could reboot it with volume up + power button.
I was pretty scared as the usual button down + power button didn't do anything lol
12 (SD1A.210817.036) on my pixel 6, occurred randomly when opening camera app. Happend 7-10 times.
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12 (SD1A.210817.036) on my pixel 6, occurred randomly when opening camera app. Happend 7-10 times.
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Odd. I never had a problem whilst using the phone, my phone only rebooted when laying idle (even though today I had no reboots at all, alas I didn't use the phone much, maybe 2h SoT without any heavy lifting).
Something in android 12 is bugging around, maybe we have to open support tickets.
dirtyissa62 said:
Something in android 12 is bugging around, maybe we have to open support tickets.
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I just talked for a while with a Google rep and he said that they are not aware of any reboot problems, no people over at Google Forums have reported such a thing. "We do not monitor Reddit or XDA" - so he said he opened a support ticket to the responsible team and they would look into it, he also asked that I / we report/feedback this under -> Settings -> Tips & Support -> Feedback.
We also talked about a lens flare problem, that at least the Pixel 6 Pro has. If you shot some photos where the sun is directly shining into the camera, you might want to re-check them. Most of mine have either some sort of big circular green dot in them, or a big beam of light like in a phone with a very bad HDR processing. It seems to be some sort of software glitch, he also reported that.
So hopefully those things can get fixed.
This was the follow-up email:
Thank you for contacting Google support.
This email is regarding the chat conversation we had earlier today, I'm sorry we weren't able to complete it. Hence I wanted to follow up via email to ensure all your queries have been answered.
Please re-launch the camera app and check if the issue is fixed.
Please be assured our developer team is working on this to fix it as soon as possible. We would really appreciate your kind understanding as we work on this to fix it for you.
If there is anything apart from this that needs clarification, please feel free to reply back to this email. I'll be more than happy to assist you.
Thanks!
Nova
The Google Support Team
I'm having similar restarts while phone is sitting on a table doing nothing. Tried a factory reset and was fine until overnight on charge and it happened again.
Also have had a few times where wifi has stopped working for some reason. Not sure if related.
Not had any reboots but quiet a few app crashes in especially FB will be scrolling away and bang just closes also Amazon app ,
Well that was interesting.. When it rebooted that time, it gave me an error screen saying it could not load and may be corrupt. I had two options, try again and factory reset. Try again got me back running, but I'm wondering do I got as defective device now.. or if it's software related.
So after a lot of messing around, I think I have narrowed down what may be causing my reboots. It only seems to happen when I am using "Frep" to play macros on a game while charging my phone.. the phone gets pretty hot, and reboots when I tap the screen or try to swipe home or recent apps. Maybe its overheating, or maybe its "Frep" playing naughty.. but Frep did work perfectly fine on my old $200 used Nord N10 5g. Will update if it reboots while not doing this.
no reboots or crashes so far, not doing any gaming - but using phone for email, surfing, whatsapp etc and also a work profile for MS outlook and teams.
I have/had similar issues with my Pixel 6 (128GB - europe unlocked).
I was transferring old data via cable from my old (Xiaomi Mi A1) to the Pixel 6. This resulted in sluggish performance, crashes every 15 minutes. The crashes would randomly occur and behave mostly like this:
Try to unlock phone with fingerprint sensor
Fingerprint sensor lights up, nothing happens, no haptic response
Swiping up to the PIN entry. Enter PIN and hit enter. Nothing happens. Now freeze.
Screen turns black and it takes phone to reboot on average ~7minutes
Factory Reset; Installed apps manually (standard messaging apps, no games etc), better performance, problem persists
Factory reset; boot into safemode. It now took way longer to provoke the issue. But it still happened.
After this I contacted the customer service and they will provide me with a replacement. But now after a night of idle, the phone was working for 3-4 hours without any issue at all with most of my apps installed. It just now went into a random reboot (could only notice because it asked for PIN because of the reboot). But not the 8 minute blank black screen type of reboot.
I am really unsure what is the issue at hand here. But have to say that experience is less than ideal.
Mine just happened last night, not charging or running anything 3rd party apps (all from App Store). I tried to use the camera after eating dinner and noticed that double clicking power button doesn't open the camera anymore. After unlocking the phone it appears that the phone has restarted.
Is anyone running Private DNS on their system like Adguard DNS or NextDNS? I did some searching and people reported some private DNS were causing Android to crash. It was suppose to be fixed in previous Android versions but it could be back again.
I haven't noticed any random reboots (and the lock screen will require a pin to be entered after reboot and says this on the screen, so you should know the phone rebooted). I've had the P6 since the official release date. In fact, I haven't restarted the phone in days.
I run a wide variety of apps. Some from the Play store and some sideloaded. I think that any reboot issues are probably app related. Remember that A12 is very new and the are surely still some compatibility issues that app developers haven't found/fixed yet.